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Serve the company's strategy through the management of large (or small) digital transformation and change management projects, internationally. From pre-sales (tenders, contracting, purchasing) to maintenance. 25 years of successful experience at Vivendi, Veolia, Lagardère, EuroCIO.
Management: IT department governance (budget and KPIs, HR, projects, operations, support), and digital transformation of business units.
Team Mgt: creation, coordination, and coaching of multicultural teams of up to 50 people.
Project Mgt: pre-sales, integration including migration and acceptance testing, development, and maintenance. In Business Analysis, Business Analysis Support, Project Engineering, fixed-price and time & materials. Tenders, IT and legal purchasing negotiations. Scope: xM€ budget, thousands of days/hours, 500k clients, 25 subsidiaries, 500 users.
Project Management Trainer: identification of 300+ best practices for successful projects.
Organization Mgt: audit of organization, processes and IS systems, then reorganization, optimization, and change management.
Partnerships & Negotiations: Microsoft, Amazon, SAP, Salesforce, Oracle, IBM-Cognos, Adobe, Symantec, Trend, Sophos, MySQL, Qlik, VMware, LANDesk, Box, Dropbox, Dell, Insight,…
Multiple conferences, round tables, interviews, and publications.
Last but not least: communication, listening, empathy, autonomy, idea and solution provider, and above all results (pragmatic/concrete).
French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Hungarian
Fluent
Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km)
Experience
- LagardèreCorporate Head of ApplicationsPRESS AND MEDIASeptember 2007 - August 2021 (13 years and 11 months)Paris, FranceSupport the IT Directors of 400 global subsidiaries on their operational projects and challenges.Align IS with subsidiaries' strategy, their organization and processes, their users and clients, through adequate IT governance and project management.Commercial partnerships and global IT/legal/purchasing negotiations for worldwide contracts with software and cloud publishers/distributors/integrators.Monitoring and dissemination of IT best practices through Cigref (e.g., BI activity lead), EuroCIO, CRiP, CRAI, IMA. Member of the Open CIO Summit Committee (2011-2012-2013).Results: annual savings of several M€ + strong qualitative impact.
- EuroCIOPresident of the Cloud Computing CouncilCONSULTING AND AUDITSApril 2011 - April 2016 (5 years)Bruxelles, Belgium150 billion € of consolidated IT budgets, 900 members, 10 countries:
- Management of a team of 50+ IT Directors and Chief Legal Officers.
- Cloud standards, certifications, SLAs, security, contracts, compliance (GDPR, SCC, CNIL),...
- Lobbying towards the European Commission (EC) and major EU and US providers.
- Member of the EC's European Cloud Partnership chaired by the President of Estonia.
- SOMEIInternational Project Manager then DirectorSOFTWARE PUBLISHINGJuly 2003 - July 2007 (4 years)Tanger, MoroccoIT Services company, subsidiary of Suez & Veolia Environnement:
- Seconded to Morocco (and Algeria).
- Software publisher and integrator: client relationship in Project Engineering and Business Analysis Support.
- Coaching, development, and capitalization of my team's know-how.
- Result: the company's first project in the Africa region to succeed (out of 6 projects).
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Education
- Computer EngineeringUTC Compiègne - McGill Montreal, BudapestME, UofLondon1994Diplôme d’ingénieur, spécialité informatique, à l'UTC Compiègne (2ème école d'ingénieur selon l'Usine Nouvelle 2017) et à l'Université de Londres (1 mois), Budapest (6 mois), McGill Montréal (5 mois).
- MBA Change & TechnologyIAE of Aix (accredited Equis and AMBA, 7th in France)2007MBA Change & Technology à l’IAE d’Aix (accrédité Equis et AMBA, 7ème en France). Dean’s list. Master d’Administration des Entreprises, spécialité Management Général (Top50 Financial Times).